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Lot 111

A Phoenician or Carthaginian glass male head pendant

6 July 2021, 15:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £2,422.50 inc. premium

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A Phoenician or Carthaginian glass male head pendant
Circa 3rd-1st Century B.C.
The opaque yellow head with applied cobalt blue eyes and curled locks above the ears, wearing yellow earrings and a twisted blue and yellow head band, a blue attachment loop above, 0.9cm high

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Provenance:
Anonymous sale; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 19 May 1987, lot 198.
Faces from the Ancient World a European Private Collection; Christie's, London, 20 April 2005, lot 38.

For the type, see a pendant formerly in the Cesnola Collection and now at the Metropolitan Museum, New York, acc. no. 74.51.4029; this pendant is suspended from a gold earring, with the attachment loop described as a large curl of hair.

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